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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

offsite link Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of

offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Jan 13, 2025 01:14 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link ?It?s -3?C but I Can?t Afford to Put the Heating on Because of Rachel Reeves? Sun Jan 12, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Meet 72 year-old retired teacher Lynn Emm, who, because of Rachel Reeves, is now forced to choose between warmth and survival, heating her home for only two hours a day while struggling to make ends meet.
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offsite link ?Islamophobia? and the Grooming Gangs Scandal Sun Jan 12, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The APPG's dangerously vague definition of Islamophobia is smothering free speech and silencing critical discussions on grooming gangs, warns Freddie Attenborough in the Spectator.
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offsite link How Wokeism Is Destroying the West Sun Jan 12, 2025 15:00 | Sallust
Sallust draws eerie parallels between the decline of the Roman Empire and the current state of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Dozens of British Women Have Seen Their Breasts Grow After the Covid Jab Sun Jan 12, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
In what has been dubbed the "Pfizer boob job", dozens of British women are reporting ballooning breasts after their Covid vaccines.
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national / politics / elections Monday March 19, 2007 - 23:57 by John McAnulty   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 20, 2007 - 13:14)

Bread and butter it wasn’t

Sectarian headcount in Irish election sees Paisley triumphant ... read full story / add a comment
Gerry Murray and other protesters after Garda baton charge at Bellanaboy Bridge, November 10th 2006
mayo / anti-capitalism Monday March 19, 2007 - 01:43 by local press reader   text 5 comments (last - monday march 19, 2007 - 19:34)   image 1 image
The current edition of the Mayo Advertiser carries an article on proceedings at Mayo Council's monthly meeting.

This month, Sinn Féin Cllr Gerry Murray proposed a motion calling on the Council to demand that the government renegotiate the current deal, whereby all the profits of the sale of the natural gas in the Corrib field will leave the country and go to the shareholders in Shell, Statoil and Marathon Oil.

Sinn Féin want to know why the money can't fund hospitals, schools, and other infrastructure projects in this country.

Cllr Murray pressed the FG Cllr present to say whether whether if, should that party be in govt after the general election, Enda Kenny would continue with the present policy of giving away the country's resources, but no answer was forthcoming.

The first part of the article is below and their is a link to the full piece: http://www.mayoadvertiser.com/index.php?aid=1316 ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Sunday March 18, 2007 - 22:01 by Anarchy Rules   text 1 comment (last - monday march 19, 2007 - 17:30)
The Sunday Business Post has done a lovely PR job for Shell. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday March 17, 2007 - 17:34 by Fiery S   text 5 comments (last - tuesday march 20, 2007 - 15:30)   image 1 image
We are all always told that the Health Service is rotten, broken, and flawed. This is not because this is true but because the FG/Labour run media conspire to keep the truth silent. Anyone who says that the health service is anything but a mess is critisiced and ridiculed. But this link shows the real truth, the truth of a health service on the mend, and being reformed...

http://www.progressivedemocrats.ie/our_policies/energy/...form/ ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 17, 2007 - 12:49 by yarra
While America leads the world in insularism and denial, Australia is the world leader in complacency and apathy. No cultural equivalent for the Oz expression, “she’ll be right, mate”, exists anywhere – notwithstanding the variation of “who gives a shit?” Today, non-involvement is proving to be a very costly cultural habit. America has become the world’s most hated nation and will soon attract very real consequences for its actions, one of which is the acquisition of Australia as a colonial trophy. Australia remains an international laughing stock under the servile leadership of lackey prime minister, John Howard; Aussies are experiencing their eleventh year under the rule of the most slavish, gutless, lying, duplicitous, cringing, government on record. No other leader in world history has displayed the servility and cowardice of John Howard. When America says jump, the despicable little coward, Howard, says how high, boss! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Saturday March 17, 2007 - 00:15 by Anarchy Rules   text 1 comment (last - monday march 19, 2007 - 12:50)
British Coroner rules a 'friendly fire' incident in Iraq as 'criminal.' ... read full story / add a comment
Sinn Féin Cllr Gerry Murray expressed disquiet about water contamination in Carrowmore Lake
mayo / environment Friday March 16, 2007 - 13:54 by s.cat   image 1 image
Here is the latest article from the Mayo Advertiser, a free newspaper widely distributed throughout the county.

Main important facts :

Erris Fishermen prepare for action.

Shell to Sea Information meeting packed out (probably all Special Branch but sure they need education too)

Water contamination raised at Council meeting, Director of services "at a loss".

Fishermans spokesman is called Eddie Divers

... read full story / add a comment
West Tyrone Sinn Féin MLA's Barry McElduff, Claire McGill and Pat Doherty M.P. with Sinn Féin party President Gerry Adams in Omagh, Co. Tyrone.
national / miscellaneous Friday March 16, 2007 - 11:55 by Barry McElduff, Claire McGill and Pat Doherty M.P.   text 1 comment (last - friday march 16, 2007 - 14:36)   image 1 image
Ba mhaith linn ómós a thabhairt do na 18, 437 daoine a chaith vóta do Shinn Féin in Iarthar Thír Eoghain ar an 7 Márta. Leis an sainordú iomráiteach seo agus trí bhainisteoireacht vótála diansmachta, rinne sibh deimhin de go dtoghadh an trúir iarthóir Shinn Fein sa dáilcheantar ar bharr an liosta. Bainfidh muid úsáid as an sainordú seo chun ár seirbhísí dáilcheantair a fhorbairt ar bhur son, chun a dheanamh cinnte go mbeidh an pholaitíocht ag obair, chun athrú bunúsach dearfach a dhéanamh ar chursaí sóisialta agus eacnamaíochta agus chun Éire Aontaithe a bhaint amach. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday March 16, 2007 - 11:47 by David Manning and Miriam Cotton   text 5 comments (last - friday march 16, 2007 - 15:51)
Below is the latest MediaShot from MediaBite. We have focused this time on the extraordinary myopia that appears to have overtaken the Irish media when considering the so-called 'evidence' being pushed by the Bush administration for military intervention in Iran. ... read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous Friday March 16, 2007 - 10:25 by QR   text 1 comment (last - friday march 16, 2007 - 10:31)
international / gender and sexuality Friday March 16, 2007 - 10:20 by Dr. Nadje Al-Ali
Islamist militants and terrorist groups pose a particular danger to Iraqi women. Many women’s organizations and activists inside Iraq have documented the increasing Islamist threats to women: the pressure to conform to certain dress codes, the restrictions in movement and behaviour, incidents of acid thrown into women’s faces and even targeted killings.

After the U.S. invasion in 2003, many women in Basra, for example, reported that they were forced to wear a headscarf or restrict their movements in fear of harassment from men. Female students at the University of Basra reported that since the war ended groups of men began stopping them at the university gates, shouting at them if their heads were not covered ... read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum Wednesday March 14, 2007 - 23:37 by neptune's eye   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 28, 2007 - 17:26)
This is thrilling stuff. I could point you in loads of directions at stunning analysis & biting cartoons. But it's best just to look at the nitty gritty of the pieces of paper that go into Hansard - the official record of the Houses of Commons and Lords SW1A Aaakkkmi6mi5. now one of those is a real secret society with hoods on. & I'm not talking about hoodies or asbestos. We do though (get hoodies & asbestos) because we're scum.

Remember that the link in this "other press" article is to a site envisioned for people who aren't like you, that's why it's called "they work for you". Thanks to the foresight of some maligned predecessors & hard bleeding by other predecessors - we either live in the bubble of the Irish diasporia or in the republic of Ireland & a lot of voting households up the wee north.
& it's not wee actually.... It's global. anyway ... read full story / add a comment
Members of Terence Wheelock's family protesting outside the Department of Justice on February 16th.
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 14, 2007 - 12:58 by Irish Times reader   text 5 comments (last - tuesday april 24, 2007 - 21:08)   image 1 image
People may have missed this when it was publicised, since the protest coincided with (extensively reported) Shell to Sea protest in Mayo.

The Wheelock family's plight has been highlighted on this site, so readers will be interested in the report on the forensic testing of Terence Wheelock's clothes. Since the Irish Times is subscription I reproduce the article here in full. ... read full story / add a comment
Leafleet dropped on Southern Iraq by British Royal Air Force
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday March 14, 2007 - 12:21 by Guardianista   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 14, 2007 - 18:56)   image 1 image
Sinn Féin have always been prepared to meet with anyone, and discuss anything.

The party has been excluded and silenced for so long in its history that there have been very few occasions when it has seemed correct to refuse to speak to someone, however much the people concerned might be considered unpopular or wrong.

On the issue of the invasion of Iraq, Sinn Féin has often been critiscised for even speaking to Bush and Blair while the war was ongoing.

This article from the Guardian might restore some people's faith that the party's representatives were not giving the British and Americans an easy time of it during these meetings.

Not that it did much good of course.

But better to try and fail, perhaps, than refuse to engage at all... ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Monday March 12, 2007 - 17:36 by Dave
In the following footage California governor Arnold Schwarznegger explains his economic policies ... read full story / add a comment
From L to R : Michelle and Barack Obama, Edward and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech
galway / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 11, 2007 - 20:23 by TD   text 13 comments (last - thursday march 29, 2007 - 18:02)   image 1 image
Now that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) - one of the main engines for America's support of Israel - is opening its annual policy conference today in Washington with such keynote speakers as Dick Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, the house speaker and Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, it's clear Palestine needs no further enemies, but, bejaysus, out steps Barack Obaba from his sheeps clothing to renege on his previous near pristine support for Palestine. ... read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media Sunday March 11, 2007 - 18:37 by canal ti zef
Canal ti zef organise a new video activist festival, we need your films ! ... read full story / add a comment
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